What Ann Coulter Could Learn from My Special-Olympian Brother-in-Law

This is the Boyle Family on vacation
together: Matriarch Barbara Boyle
and me with my two children
Lili and Jake, my husband
David Boyle on the upper left,
and his brother Paul Boyle
on the upper right.

"I highly approve of Romney's decision to be kind and gentle to the retard." Ann Coulter referring to President Barack Obama in a tweet during the final presidential debates October 22, 2012.
Like the "N word" or "fag," the word "retard" has joined the class of words disfavored in public discourse and polite society because these words are most commonly understood to be slurs, used to hurt or diminish a person, not to classify them in any helpful manner.